All women who are of reproductive age have a discharge. Depending on the day of the cycle, age, state of health, they can be different in density, intensity and transparency. By the quality of the discharge, you can get an idea about the health of a woman.
If the vaginal discharge with the smell of a fish has a thick white, yellowish or even greenish color, then it can be accurately predicted that a woman has bacterial vaginosis.
Changes in secretions may be accompanied by such unpleasant sensations as burning, itching. Sometimes urination becomes painful. If there is a discharge with the smell of a fish, you need to contact a gynecologist.
Similar phenomena occur if a woman has sexually transmitted diseases, such as trichomoniasis, gonorrhea, or gardnerellosis.
The latter infection is not a classic sexually transmitted disease. Gardnerella lives in the body of healthy women, but it is found in general infectious diseases, with a decrease in immunity and is transmitted sexually.
Most often, it is with gardnerellosis that the smell of rotten fish is accompanied by discharge. Treatment for this infection is required. Rising from the urethra to the uterus and ovaries, it causes inflammation and reduces the overall immunity of the body.
In addition to the fact that there are discharge with the smell of fish, you can suspect this infection if they become grayish in color, slightly foam, while the labia swollen, there is a burning sensation during urination and discomfort after intercourse.
Usually prescribed drugs with metronidazole, penicillin antibiotics, anti-inflammatory suppositories. Sometimes it is enough to normalize the vaginal flora with topical preparations with probiotics.
White discharge with the smell of fish can occur with bacterial vaginosis and without detecting gardnerella in the analysis results.
Sometimes discharge with the smell of fish appears during hormonal failure, with improper nutrition, with hypothermia. They may be transparent, but still indicate some kind of pathology in the genital area. It is advisable to take a smear - a gynecological analysis, which the doctor takes on the glass for further examination under a microscope in the laboratory to find out what caused this unpleasant odor.
Yeast fungi may be his culprit, which can be quite easily eliminated with adequate treatment in 2-3 days. Most often, with an infection called candidiasis, topical preparations are used (in the form of vaginal tablets and suppositories).
Treatment in each case is prescribed by the doctor, taking into account the individual characteristics of the body and the development of the disease. Moreover, drugs have to be taken in conjunction with a sexual partner, even if he has no symptoms of the disease.
It is especially dangerous when discharge with the smell of fish appears in women of childbearing age. In the event that the disease becomes chronic, it can provoke premature birth, miscarriage, and persistent recurrent inflammation.